It's Pi Day this week, and all thoughts turn to pie. Here are simple, streamlined ways to get a delicious sweet or savoury pie on your table.

Frozen veggies are better suited for soup, stews and saucy curries than for roasting. And if you're adding frozen berries to pancake or muffin batter, keep them frozen and add them last, so they hold their juices rather than releasing them into your batter.

The tall, sweet, tender, cakey yeast-raised breads, studded with raisins and citrus, sometimes dried fruit, often chocolate, can be found in stores for as low as $10, but theyre generally between $20 to $50, with some closer to $80.